Urban Life and Society

By Harry Gold

Urban Life and Society is a comprehensive and readable overview of the entire field of urban sociology. It provides a very well balanced introduction to all of the major approaches and perspectives.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130216054
• ISBN13: 9780130216052
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

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Publishers blurb implies the book's review of urban history ends with the renissance period--not true!--book covers urbanization through the 20th and into the 21st century! The book mainly covers contemporary urban phenomena--everything beyond the second chapter through the sixteenth and last chaper deals with 19th, 20th, and 21st century urban themes and phenomena. Again, it's a book about modern urban sociology, with only one chapter on ancient, medieval, fuedal, and renaissance urban civilizations. I hope you can correct this misleading and very incomplete description of the books contents. Look at the contents and see for yourself!Dr. Harry Gold, Professor Emeritus, Oakland University